Fly Away 2026

In Fly Away, players assemble their own wedge-shaped formation of migratory birds, trying to arrange the different species in the positions that best satisfy their personal scoring cards. At the beginning of the game, each player receives four scoring cards and chooses three to keep, creating a different combination of scoring goals for each player.

On your turn, take one to three adjacent bird cards from the shared display. The cards may come from different rows, but they must be adjacent. You then add those birds to your personal formation while preserving exactly the same arrangement in which you took them. At least one newly placed card must be adjacent to a bird already in your formation, and your completed formation must contain twelve cards arranged in three rows of three, four, and five cards.

Once a player completes their formation, the other players have only a limited number of turns before they begin taking penalty cards, rewarding players who complete their formations efficiently rather than waiting indefinitely for the perfect birds.

After everyone has completed their formation, players can use special abilities on their bird cards to swap birds, flip cards so they do not score, or double their value. Players then score their chosen scoring cards, bonuses for collecting all five bird species, and any penalty cards. The player with the most points wins.

—description from the publisher